Personal Protective Equipment | Monthly bulletin | September 2019

Europe

Harmonised standards for Personal Flotation Devices

On 18^th July 2019, the European Commission published:

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1217 of 17 July 2019 on the harmonised standards for personal flotation devices — lifejackets drafted in support of Council Directive 89/686/EEC.”

The list of references of harmonised standards maintained with restriction in the Official Journal of the European Union are:

Notice: the references of harmonised standards listed in the Table are maintained in the Official Journal of the European Union with the following restriction:

a) Application of clauses 5.6.1.1, 5.6.1.2 and 5.6.1.4 of each of the standards do not confer a presumption of conformity with the basic health and safety requirement set out in point 1.1.1. of Annex II to Directive 89/686/EEC;

b) Application of clauses 5.3.2, 5.3.3, 5.6.1.3, 5.6.1.6 and 5.6.1.7 of each of the standards do not confer a presumption of conformity with the basic health and safety requirement set out in point 1.2.1. of Annex II to Directive 89/686/EEC;

c) Application of clauses 5.2, 5.3.1, 5.3.3, 5.3.4 and 5.6.2.5 of each of the standards do not confer a presumption of conformity with the basic health and safety requirement set out in point 3.4. of Annex II to Directive 89/686/EEC.

Standards updates

Below a summary table with some recent standards updates and upcoming dates of withdrawal (non-exhaustive):

(*) Date of withdrawal: latest date by which national standards conflicting with an EN (and HD for CENELEC) have to be withdrawn.

Product Recalls/Alerts

Below you will find a monthly summary of product recalls and alerts in Europe (Source “RAPEX”).

Europe

RAPEX (European Commission Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products – Alerts reported by EU national authorities).

The following 4 alerts regarding Personal Protective equipment have been reported, from week 29 until week 33 of 2019.